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  1. Re:Comparison To Security Engineering? on How to Cheat at Managing Information Security · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes. How to Cheat at Managing Information Security is to Security Engineering as reading about morse code is to designing a fiber optic network. Hope that helps.

  2. Re:It's not a web site on Legal Actions of School Against a Proxy's Host? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You'll get all the education you need, just you won't be allowed on the internet. When I worked for a school district, those who had their parents sign the paper got filtered internet access. Those who didn't got intranet access only. Simple active directory groups combined with websense.

    Catching those who used other peoples accounts was trivial the instant two logins to the same username happened (since once someone gives out their password, it spreads like wildfire)

    Catching those who used external SSL proxys was more difficult, but gross abusers still stood out

  3. Re:Plague and religion on Gene Found In Black Death Survivors Stops HIV · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If we are speaking of old civilizations...then it seems pertinent to discuss the Romans...who were permiscuous as all hell...and were pretty damn successful. The religious aspect is bunk!

  4. DR according to TFA on Katrina Delays Shuttle · · Score: 1

    computer specialists still need to get access to Michoud in order to retrieve key data stored only on that facility's computers.

    Excuse me while I laugh heartily at NASA's amazing disaster recovery plan. Mmm... backups? why yes, we have those in a basement in NOLA; we thought that would be far enough away from Michoud. Losers.

  5. Re:Great Case for a Museum on The AT&T Archives Post-SBC Merger? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Having been at the San Francisco SBC museum a few weeks ago, (located in the Bell building at 140 New Montgomery, open 10AM-2PM Mon-Thurs) I can candidly say it sucked elephant nuts through nanopore straws. The volunteer mentioned that most of the good stuff went to the archives when a consultant curator came through and turned it into a museum rather than the collection of interactive exhibits it was before. It used to be cool, now it's basically a couple phone books from 1919, a princess phone, and half a frame from 1936. So, yes, SBC == Slash and Burn Corporation.

  6. Re:Let's hear it for old school! on Review: The Mummy Returns · · Score: 1
    Flopped? I went last night (sun), and the theatre was packed. In the news this morning, The Mummy was the top grossing film at the box office, with $70,100,000 over the weekend. That beats Star Wars: The Phamtom Menaces $65,500,000 opening weekend gross. Therefore, I wouldn't call it a flop. Not that it was a good movie, but it wasn't as bad as Freddie Got Fingered.

    And yes, originality would be nice, but old school originality was adapting stories from books (eg Disney movies from Grim's Fairy Tales, Jurassic Park, The Lord of the Rings, et al). New school originality is adapting from previous movies (Jurassic Park II, III) and from computer games (Wing Commander, Final Fantasy). The only movie coming out soon that sounds promising on the originality front is Dreamworks Shreck.

  7. Re:Bushmills and other warm stuff on The Geek Compound Prepares for Y2k · · Score: 1

    Dude! The best way to spend Y2K is with loving friends and family. In my case, that means getting togeather at the local high school with mom, dad, brothers & sisters, and of course, the sysadmin. Open up a computer lab and do some "Y2K Stress testing" on the network. i.e. have some kickass half life and unreal deathmatches .

    Now, to make the activity Y2K compatible;

    55 Gallon drum of 87 grade gasonine
    5 Honda generators
    5 APC UPS's (gotta filter that power!)
    5 Hurricane lamps (for when the light fails)
    1 Case Jolt Cola (how else you gounna stay up all night?
    1 Case of pork rinds (just in case)